Pierre Du Moulin
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 12 Aug
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as said the apostle through the veil that is to say his flesh and this must needs be death well by what other kind of death could this have come to pass than by one which took place in the air i mean the cross for only he that is perfected on the cross dies in the air
whence it was quite fitting that the Lord suffered this death.
For thus being lifted up, he cleared the air of the malignity, both of the devil and of demons of all kinds, as he says, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven, and made a new opening of the way up into heaven, as he says once more, Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors.
For it was not the word himself that needed an opening of the gates, being Lord of all.
nor were any of his works closed to their maker, but we it was that needed it, whom he carried up by his own body, for as he offered it to death on behalf of all, so by it he once more made ready the way up into the heavens.
The death on the cross, then, for us, has proved seemly and fitting, and its cause has been shown to be reasonable in every respect, and it may justly be argued that in no other way than by the cross was it right for the salvation of all to take place.
For not even thus, not even on the cross, did he leave himself concealed, but far otherwise, while he made creation witness to the presence of its Maker, he suffered not the temple of his body to remain long,
but having merely shown it to be dead by the contact of death with it he straightway raised it up on the third day bearing away as the mark of victory and the triumph over death the incorruptibility and impassibility which resulted to his body
for he could even immediately on death have raised his body and shown it alive but this also the saviour in wise foresight did not do for one might have said that he had not died at all or that death had not come into perfect contact with him if he had manifested the resurrection at once perhaps again had the interval of his dying and rising again been one of two days only the glory of his incorruption would have been obscure
so in order that the body might be proved to be dead the word tarried yet one intermediate day and on the third showed it incorruptible to all so then that the death on the cross might be proved he raised his body on the third day
but lest by raising it up when it had remained a long time and been completely corrupted he should be disbelieved as though he had exchanged it for some other body for a man might also from lapse of time distrust what he saw and forget what had taken place
for this cause he waited not more than three days nor did he keep long in suspense those whom he had told about the resurrection but while the word was still echoing in their ears and their eyes were still expectant and their mind in suspense and while those who had slain him were still living on earth and were on the spot and could witness to the death of the lord's body
the son of god himself after an interval of three days showed his body once dead immortal and incorruptible and it was made manifest to all that it was not from any natural weakness of the word that dwelt in it that the body had died but in order that in it death might be done away by the power of the saviour
for that death is destroyed, and that the cross is become the victory over it, and that it has no more power, but is verily dead, this is no small proof, or rather an evident warrant, that it is despised by all Christ's disciples, and that they all take the aggressive against it, and no longer fear it, but by the sign of the cross, and by faith in Christ, tread it down as dead.
for of old before the divine sojourn of the saviour took place even to the saints death was terrible and all wept for the dead as though they perished but now that the saviour has raised his body death is no longer terrible for all who believe in christ tread him under as naught and choose rather to die than to deny their faith in christ
for they verily know that when they die they are not destroyed but actually begin to live and become incorruptible through the resurrection and that the devil that once maliciously exulted in death now that its pains were loosed remained the only one truly dead
and a proof of this is that before men believe in christ they see in death an object of terror and play the coward before him but when they are gone over to christ's faith and teaching their contempt for death is so great that they even eagerly rush upon it and become witnesses for the resurrection the saviour has accomplished against it
for while still tender in years they make haste to die and not men only but women also exercise themselves by bodily discipline against it so weak has he become that even women who were formerly deceived by him now mock at him as dead and paralysed for as when a tyrant has been defeated by a real king and bound hand and foot then all that pass by laugh him to scorn buffeting and reviling him
no longer fearing his fury and barbarity because of the king who has conquered him so also death having been conquered and exposed by the saviour on the cross and bound hand and foot all they who are in christ as they pass by trample on him and witnessing to christ scoff at death jesting at him and saying what has been written against him of old o death where is thy victory o grave where is thy sting
is this then a slight proof of the weakness of death or is it a slight demonstration of the victory won over him by the saviour when the youths and young maidens that are in christ despise this life and practise to die for man is by nature afraid of death and of the dissolution of the body
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